An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County, California

An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County, California
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Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 688
Release: 2016-10-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781333947040

Excerpt from An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County, California: Containing a History of San Joaquin County From the Earliest Period of Its Occupancy to the Present Time, Together With Glimpses of Its Future Prospects A' deposit of manganese has been Opened in Tulare Township, about twelve miles southeast of Tracy. Street gravel, 'which was formerly brought to Stockton from Milton, in Calaveras County, is now obtained in large quantities at Nightingale, about two miles southeast from the city limits. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Trunk Dripped Blood

The Trunk Dripped Blood
Author: Mark Grossman
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2018-01-12
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1476630135

A trunk dripping blood, discovered at a railway station in Stockton in 1906, launched one of the most famous murder investigations in California history--still debated by crime historians. In 1913, the dismembered body of a young pregnant woman, found in the East River, was traced back to her killer and husband, who remains the only priest ever executed for homicide in the U.S. In 1916, a successful dentist, recently married into a prestigious family, poisoned his in-laws--first with deadly bacteria, then with arsenic--claiming the real murderer was an Egyptian incubus who took control of his body. Drawing on court transcripts, newspaper coverage and other contemporary sources, this collection of historical American true crime stories chronicles five murder cases that became media sensations of their day, making headlines across the country in the decades before radio or television.